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Rosaceae

Olympic Mountain rockmat

Petrophytum hendersonii (Canby ex Greene) Rydb.

Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Petrophytum

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Olympic Mountain rockmat: Horticultural specimen in RHS Garden Harlow Carr - North Yorkshire, England.
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (2)
English
Olympic Mountain rockmat
German
Henderson-Felsspiere

Synonyms

  • Eriogynia hendersonii Canby ex Greene
  • Eriogynia hendersonii Canby
  • Luetkea hendersonii (Canby ex Greene) Greene
  • Spiraea hendersonii (Canby ex Greene) Piper

Characteristics

Growth habit
Subshrub
Lifespan
Perennial
In the US and Canada
Lower 48 states: native

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.